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Strains of Dissent by Kelly Jakes
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Strains of Dissent

Popular Music and Everyday Resistance in WWII France, 1940-1945
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During the German Occupation from 1940 to 1944, Resistance fighters, Parisian youth, and French prisoners of war mined a vast repertoire from a long national musical tradition and a burgeoning international entertainment industry, embracing music as a rhetorical resource with which to destabilize Nazi ideology and contest collaborationist Vichy propaganda. After the Liberation of 1944, popular music continued to mediate French political life, helping citizens to challenge American hegemony and recuperate their nation’s lost international standing. Ultimately, through song, French dissidents rejected Nazi subordination, the politics of collaboration, and American intervention and insisted upon a return to that trinity of traditional French values, liberté, egalité, fraternité. Strains of Dissent recovers the significance of music as a rhetorical means of survival, subversion, and national identity construction and illuminates the creative and cunning ways that individual citizens defied the Occupation outside of formal resistance networks and movements.

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Kelly Jakes is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Wayne State University.
Release date NZ
January 30th, 2019
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  • Professional & Vocational
Pages
256
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155x231x18
ISBN-13
9781611863055
Product ID
28860978

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